6/23/2023 0 Comments Tremulous pictureMcLain worked on some Dick Clark road shows on one, a multi-act tour that included the Yardbirds, he recalls seeing Jimmy Page “do strange things with his guitar, playin’ with a fiddle bow.” But McLain admits he quickly fell into the rock & roll lifestyle. Hispanic country kingpin Freddy Fender did well with a version of McLain’s “If You Don’t Love (Why Don’t You Just Leave Me Alone),” but McLain himself struggled to take his career to another level. In the Seventies, he scored a local hit with “No Tomorrows Now,” formed the Muletrain Band, and even cut a version of Abba’s “Another Town, Another Train.” “I had trouble with that tune,” he recalls. “It took me a while to get into the story of that. It’s like a movie.” But little of it made a dent, and he resigned himself to making a living playing anywhere in his home state that would have him. Work on I Ran Down Every Dream began four years ago, interrupted by McLain’s heart attack, a pandemic, three hurricanes, and a fire in McLain’s house. All along, McLain kept working on new tunes. (“Son of a bitch kept writing,” cracks Adcock, who had the idea of a new McLain album.) In addition to the two Costello collaborations, the record also includes haunted updates of “Before I Grow Too Old” and “No Tomorrows Now,” along with “Greatest Show on Hurt,” co-written with Lowe. (He and Costello discovered McLain by way of a late Seventies swamp-pop compilation, Another Saturday Night.) “There’s a lot of similarity between pub-rock and swamp-rock,” says Adcock. I think that’s what resonated with those cats.” “They’re for working people who come to dance and have fun after a work day. McLain will play the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Retrieval in May, followed by a string of Northeast dates with Lowe that will finally see him busting out of Louisiana - and leaving any old habits behind. “It used to be a bottle of whiskey and cocaine, but now it’s all business,” McLain says. “Everyone tries something when they’re young. I’ve been through it, and I came out of it alive. You young people living wild, you may not get as far as this.Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, The Girl and the Spider, 2021, 2K video, color, sound, 98 minutes. Lisa (Liliane Amuat) and Mara (Henriette Confurius). “ALLES GEHT KAPUTT,”a plaint uttered late in The Girl and the Spider (2021), conjures the controlling theme of this precisionist study in entropy and dissolution. The word kaputt, with its connotations of utter exhaustion or failure, repeats five other times in the film, variously applied to a pair of glasses, a sound system, a pair of shoes, a door, and, most tellingly, a discarded down jacket, its yawning seams shedding a soft rain of feathers as a reminder that everything eventually falls apart. The opening image of an architectural plan for a four-room flat segues, assisted by a subtle sound bridge, to a violent close-up of a power drill shattering asphalt on the sidewalk outside, the blunt juxtaposition imparting the central contention of this overdetermined film-that order and control inevitably succumb to disarray and fragmentation and every object and relationship is prone to ruin. Although the reasons for these elisions are understandable, they rob the film of the bite that a more honest record might have had.“Less is more,” a hapless, affable character called Markus pronounces toward the end of Spider this minimalist credo has been readily apparent in the film’s mise-en-scène since its initial image. But the doctor played by Harrison Ford is a composite character, the time frame is drastically compressed and the pharmaceutical company that develops the life-saving enzyme is a fictional conglomeration. The film has modest box office appeal but will have to overcome mixed reviews.Īn opening title informs the audience that the picture is “inspired by a true story,” and indeed, John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) was a real person fighting to find a treatment for Pompe disease, a rare genetic disorder related to muscular dystrophy. The movie works on an unsubtle level you’d have to be stonehearted not to respond to this tale of adorable tots in jeopardy. That might be a cheap shot, but unfortunately, it’s pretty close to the mark. LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Since “Extraordinary Measures,” a tremulous medical drama about a father trying to save the lives of his children, is the first feature released by the newly constituted CBS Films, it’s all too tempting to describe the piece as a TV movie, reminiscent of those disease-of-the-week affairs that used to clog the tube. Cast members Brendan Fraser (L) and Harrison Ford pose together at the premiere of CBS film's "Extraordinary Measures" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, January 19, 2010.
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